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Daily Archives: January 19, 2007

GAO: FEMA Needs Adequate Data, Plans, and Systems to Effectively Manage Resources

Budget Issues: FEMA Needs Adequate Data, Plans, and Systems to Effectively Manage Resources for Day-to-Day Operations, Full text GAO-07-139, and Highlights, January 19, 2007. “FEMA lacks a strategic workforce plan and related human capital strategies–such as succession planning or a coordinated training effort–which are integral to managing resources.” Continue Reading

Coalition to Address International Free Expression and Privacy Challenges

Press release: “A diverse group of companies, academics, investors, technology leaders and human rights organizations announced today its intention to seek solutions to the free expression and privacy challenges faced by technology and communications companies doing business internationally. The process – which aims to produce a set of principles guiding company behavior when faced with… Continue Reading

NIST Evaluation of Laboratories that Test Voting Systems

NIST Evaluation of Laboratories that Test Voting Systems: “The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in its accreditation of laboratories qualified to conduct the testing, certification, decertification, and recertification of voting systems as provided under the act.… Continue Reading

New on LLRX.com for January 2007

Table of Contents for LLRX.com – January 15, 2007 issue: Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide, by Sabrina I. Pacifici The Impact of Social Networking Tools and Guidelines to Use Them, by LaJean Humphries The Blog – Another Tool in Your Arsenal, by Janet Peros Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: How the Web… Continue Reading